Sepia Saturday: What the Heck

Sepia Saturday challenges bloggers to share family history through old photographs.

Let me say right here and now: I will be surprised AND disappointed if I am the only HomoSepian with NO photos of ancestors riding in a sidecar. Our noble leader is determined to test my creativity in meeting this week’s Sepia Saturday challenge.

While various relatives ran general stores, none of them delivered in a sidecar, so I had to think of another angle. The best I can offer is people beSIDE a CAR. 

So how about a child sitting on the fender of a car?

My father's cousin
John Holland 1920
son of Mae Killeen and Clifton Holland

Or a child propped up against the wheel? (Really – what were they thinking? Was a car the best prop they could come up with?)

Unknown baby
in album of Lillie Killeen

Or children sitting on the running board?

Helen Killeen captioned this picture "The Gang 1920"
The ages possibly fit the 3 youngest in the family -
my grandmother Julia, Catherine, Tate
but who would be the 4th???
The woman probably standing outside the car
could be Mrs. Ollice, a friend of the family.

I hear sidecars have made a comeback in parts of the world. The only sidecar I am interested in is this kind:

Hang on for a wild ride over at Sepia Saturday. (I know everyone will put me to shame!)

  

Wendy

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Sepia Saturday: Socks Appeal

Sepia Saturday challenges bloggers to share family history through old photographs.

This week’s Sepia Saturday prompt shows a crowd of boys hovering around a game of marbles. A good game of marbles can get rather heated. And so can those socks.

The socks worn by the boys in the photo were surely heavier and hotter than what the boys in my photos wore. There is nothing particularly interesting about the socks, but the photos themselves are rather good.

John Clifton Holland
son of my grandaunt Mae Killeen Holland

Unknown child but photo was among those
belonging to my grandaunt Helen Killeen Parker

If this picture dates to the 1890s, then I would guess
the boys are John and Matthew Glynn,
cousins of my grandaunts Helen and Mae

My granny Julia and her sister Catherine
1920

When I look at this photo of my granny at age 12 with her white socks pulled up, I see myself at about the same age. I think I have her legs.

Me about age 12

Granny was a sock wearer even into her granny years.

My granny 1952 - she laughed about this pose

In the 1940s when my mother was in high school, the rolled bobby socks was the look to sport.

Joanne Palmer, Mary E. Davis (my mother),
Betsy Ward, Unknown, Cookie Spencer

The girls achieved that fullness with an extra sock in the roll. My mother and her friends teased Joanne Palmer (on the left) for wearing her boyfriend’s dark socks. I never learned why she did that.

Grab your lucky socks and knuckle down at Sepia Saturday.

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